As you know, I normally only cover English news and projects on the blog. This isn’t due to any xenophobic tendencies, I’m just not very good at other languages. However, a site has just come to my attention that might…
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Multi-Datacenter Cassandra on 32 Raspberry Pi’s
Brandon Van Ryswyk and Daniel Chin have just finished building a 32-node DataStax Enterprise cluster running on Raspberry Pis. It’s being used to demonstrate the fault-tolerant nature of Cassandra by letting visitors to their lobby take down a ‘data centre’ with…
Motion detection with the Raspberry Pi camera
Rob Zwetsloot over at Linux User has done a nice tutorial with code listing that shows you how to do motion detection with the camera module. It takes a picture, stores it in a stream and then captures another image,…
PiAware for Live Flight Tracking on the Raspberry Pi
Want to track flights live on your Raspberry Pi? Take a look at PiAware. PiAware is a FlightAware client program that runs on a Raspberry Pi to securely transmit dump1090 ADS-B and Mode S data to FlightAware. You need a Raspberry…
PA Consulting Group launches 3rd annual Raspberry Pi competition
PA Consulting has launched their 3rd annual competition for Raspberry Pi projects. (You can see one of the winning entries from this year’s competition above). This time, the challenge is to “revolutionise people’s health and wellbeing” using a Pi and…
Solve a Rubik’s Cube with a Raspberry Pi
Zijiang, over at Makeblock, has created a robotic apparatus that will solve a Rubik’s cube. It has four robotic arms which pivot to turn the sides of the cube and the whole thing is controlled by a Raspberry Pi. Take…
Remotely deploy projects to the Raspberry Pi using NetBeans IDE
Richard Bound has written a nice little tutorial on using a desktop computer running the NetBeans IDE to remotely deploy an application to the Raspberry Pi. Read it here.
Computer classrooms and how they should look
Clive Beale’s written a great piece on the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s blog about the new Computing curriculum and how that will work in practice in the classroom. Read it here.
Comparison of two small screens for the Raspberry Pi
The Average Man has done an extensive review-and-comparison between the venerable Adafruit PiTFT and a 3.5″ screen from new-kid-on-the-block NeoSec. It really does provide some excellent food-for-thought if you’re looking for a small touchscreen. Read it here.
Pibow Coupe case for the Raspberry Pi Model B+
Another case review. This time, it’s the red-and-clear Pibow Coupe B+ from Pimoroni. This is an outstanding case, so expect lots of positives and very few negatives. Unlike other Pibows, you get fewer layers so that the USB/ethernet ports protrude…